Relevant Research Areas

SAB2018 solicits contributions dealing with any aspect of adaptive behaviour in natural and artificial systems. Typical, but not exclusive, topics of interest are:

Bio-inspired and hybrid robotics

Autonomous robotics

Humanoid robotics

Soft robotics

Cognitive and developmental robotics

The animat approach

Motor control

Body and brain co-evolution

Self-assembling and self-replication

Sensory-motor coordination

Action selection and behavioural sequencing

Navigation and mapping

Internal models and representation

Evolution, development and learning

Collective and social behaviour

Applied adaptive behaviour

Motivation and emotion

Communication and language

Emergent structures and behaviours

Neural correlates of behaviour

Evolutionary and co-evolutionary approaches

Software agents and virtual creatures

Philosophical and psychological issues

Animats in education

Scope of the Conference

The objective of this interdisciplinary conference is to bring together researchers in computer science, artificial intelligence, artificial life, control, robotics, neurosciences, ethology, evolutionary biology and related fields in order to further our understanding of the behaviours and underlying mechanisms that allow natural and artificial animals to adapt and survive in uncertain environments. The conference will focus on experiments with well-defined models including robot models, computer simulation models and mathematical models designed to help characterise and compare various organisational principles or architectures underlying adaptive behaviour in real animals and in synthetic agents, the animats.

Cyberbotics will sponsor the best paper prize which is a current full Webots package.